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CCP, I have a friend that didn't log in for weeks as his computer literally burn. I suspect this is the reason, as my computer started to restart due to overheating... and monitoring the temperatures I realized that are going high when I have my pilots docked.
Please bring this option back, Eve is not about staying in stations and looking at stupid rendering.

The client is prettier certainly, but being docked really should not take up more CPU than being undocked. Taking a break from the game and docking up really should not lead me to concerns that my GPU will stress out while I am away. The unintended consequence is that people will log out when docked which will often lead them to not bother coming back to the game for longer stretches which means less players playing or being online.

I find I am less online because of this.

While it is good and well to push the graphics of the game onward, you cause problems for the EVE players who cannot keep up with the latest and greatest trends in hardware. While it may require a little extra step, an option that reduces the GPU while docked (as in: better than when undocked) would go a long way to keeping players from wondering if they can reasonably afford an computer upgrade to keep playing EVE.

Those of us who travel, myself included will thank you greatly. Those of us with laptops not designed for the highest end gaming will thank you. Our laptop's GPUs will thank you for not burning them out.

While it may be an inconvenience in QA to schedule a task, is ensuring your players can have reasonable expectations of enjoying the game for longer periods not worth it? The adverts are pretty, the interiors are pretty, but sometimes people just want to play the game.

My experience has turned to **** since the introduction of hanger billboards. I'm down to 20mins a day, which is as much as I can stand of the clunky interface.

I'm pretty sure that CCP understands the problems caused by the dynamic hangar perfectly well. I believe that some designers or managers have a personal stake in this matter which causes them to ignore valid player complaints about waste of energy, heat and noise pollution. Otherwise a responsible person would come forth and say "let's offer the players an option to get rid of this useless, bloated, sci-fi themed virtual fishtank and have our graphics team work on useful stuff instead".

+1 to this thread.

Sort it out CCP. No one cares about the pretty graphics in stations, we just want a way to have our computers be quiet for the 90% of our Eve playing time (i.e. in stations with multiple clients open)

Bring back the door, and stop making changes that are bad for large numbers of players for the benefit of your test team. They get paid to test, and ironically- it's us, the players, that pay them one way or another.

open the ship tree, should have the same effect as an option to turn off hangar rendering.

if you want to reduce load even further and you are a market trader or something similar, you could also lock the FPS with an external tool to 20-25. MSI afterburner can do that, tools like IS Boxer probably too. Putting your graphics card into power safe mode via the graphics driver is another option to reduce heat but the performance will go down significantly obviously.